Politics and Food Insecurity in Africa

Robert L. Paarlberg

Review of Agricultural Economics, 1999, vol. 21, issue 2, 499-511

Abstract: Food security circumstances are improving in every region of the world except in Africa, where they have been progressively worsening. One food security challenge for analysts in the twenty-first century may be to stop thinking globally and spend more time thinking about Africa, where the largest problems will lie. The discovery that Africa's weak policy performance in the food and farm sector may be in part an outgrowth of its greater ethnic diversity, compounded by political malfunctions that date from a colonial history of externally imposed state formation is an inconvenient one for the economist.

Date: 1999
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